Aussie AdWords has historically been managed by Google Ireland, but now an Asia Pacific AdWords group is being setup for launch May 5th Read more here It will be interesting to set if localised standards will be implemented to include for example gambling advertising which his currently not allowed etc
Google Panda Update | Targeting Web Spam Google latest updated code named Panda is specifically targeting web spam. Webspam are website’s that don’t provide real value to visitors because for example they contain content copied from other sites or are generally of low value Google says 11.8% of their search results have been impacted by [...]
The Asian domain scam seems like it will never end! The scammers send an email titled Brand name dispute or similar, claiming someone is trying to buy domains that are associated with your business, and offering them to you instead I originally reported this domain scam back in August 2008
Google catches Bing stealing their search results The contentious news topic in the search industry at the moment is did or does Bing use Goggle search results to refine their own ? Apparently Google caught wind of this rumour and setup a sting and allegedly proved that Bing does in fact do this. I suppose there is a serious [...]
The Google PageRank displayed on Google’s Toolbar has been recently updated and some PageRanks have gone up, some remained the same and some have gone down. This is a contentious measurement as Google has consistently talked about the importance of PageRank but more recently played it down it seems because they think its being obsessed about… The [...]
The new update to Rank Trackers ver 5.1 now displays Visits using API integration into Analytics Of course this means that you need to be tracking the site in Analytics, but frankly I think that’s a no-brainer. What this means is you have a single console that you can see #searches KEI & how many visitors [...]
Virgin Blue has paid $110,000 in fines and has given the Australian Communications and Media Authority (ACMA) an undertaking committing to an assessment and overhaul of its email marketing systems after sending consumers unwanted emails. Some consumers had continued to receive emails from the company although they had unsubscribed from the service. “Businesses which market [...]
Late least year Google made a number of changes to its search results display one of which was to combine Google Places with organic results. Here how it looks now for internet marketing Adelaide Notice that the organic result for my site (A) above is merged with my Google Places information, and I can choose [...]
Google are reviewing the link value or ‘authority’ for Facebook & Twitter links. Matt Cutts says: “We do use Twitter and Facebook links in ranking as we always have in our web search rankings, but in addition we’re also trying to figure out a little bit about the reputation of an author or creator on [...]
Google has launched a new blog which brings together small business-relevant resources from across Google’s staggering range of often free products & services. The Small Business blog has already offered up some excellent advice including: How to respond to business reviews on your Place page Templates for creating YouTube videos Tips for employees use of [...]